Some interesting insights into what citizens think of the Delhi Master Plan-2021(MPD-2021) and how it impacts them, its errors and failures, and ways to improve and streamline it can be gleaned from the 500 suggestions received from the public that have now been uploaded on the Delhi Development Authority's website as part of the ongoing review of the Master Plan.

NEW DELHI: Ironical as it may be, DDA has no jurisdiction over a large part of the Yamuna floodplain located within Delhi. Consequently, while tonnes of construction debris is dumped along the Pushta Road in east Delhi, choking water bodies and generally making a mess of the riverbed in the heart of the city, DDA says it cannot take action as the land in question belongs to the UP irrigation department.

Two Ministers get additional grant for their constituencies

The additional grant of several crores of rupees to two Delhi Ministers, Raj Kumar Chauhan and Arvinder Singh Lovely, and another Congress MLA, Naseeb Singh, has caught the fancy of several other legislators in the Assembly who now also want additional money for development works in their constituency.

New Delhi: Chief minister Sheila Dikshit slammed the-Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Thursday by calling it a “closed system” and an “elephant” that cannot match the pace at which the capital is progressing. “DDA has become like an elephant, which cannot ride or move. And when it moves, it is so slow that it cannot catch up with the pace at which Delhi is moving ahead,” she said.

One lakh LIG/EWS housing units to be ready in three years

Delhi Development Authority vice-chairman G. S. Patnaik on Tuesday reaffirmed the Authority's intention to deliver one lakh housing units for low-income and economically weaker sections of society within three years. He said construction of 20,040 EWS houses using prefab-technology was progressing and he expected to deliver 8,000 of these units in 2012.

There is some relief in sight for the allottees of Commonwealth Games Village flats. The Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) has found the project acceptable “from the point of view of aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design”. But the commission has made it clear that issuing completion certificate for the complex should be separately dealt by the competent authority.

The Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board on Monday approved an action plan to make Delhi a slum free city by 2015 and decided to take up phase-wise relocation of a large number of clusters. It also announced the decision to allot 1,400 flats in January as part of the first phase of its relocation plan.

At a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, the Board decided to begin allotment of residential units to jhuggi-jhonpri dwellers from January.

Union Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises

Condoning the illegalities of the past, the Union Urban Development Ministry wants Delhi of the future to be a vertical city where people are housed in high rises with quick access to public transport and modern commercial centres.

Lok Sabha on Monday passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (special provision) second bill, 2011.

Replying to the debate on the bill, Union urban development minister Kamal Nath promised to prepare a visionary plan that will take into account the
requirements for the next 25 years. Conceding that by the time a Master Plan is made ready, it becomes old as other developments overtake it, he said, “That is why I have asked Parliament to give me three years to prepare an appropriate Master Plan”. He added, “It has to be visionary, keeping next 25 years in mind”.

New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Thursday demanded an explanation from the state government why contempt of court proceedings shouldn’t be initiated against it for failing to construct enclosures along the Yamuna so that garbage could not be dumped into the river, especially during the festival season. HC issued the enclosure order five years ago.